Cyprus

The military can play amid a positive role among wider efforts to alleviate the climate crisis, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides told a climate change and security conference on Monday. Petrides ...

Seemingly unnecessarily, the state-funded Cyprus Olympic Committee spent over €8,000 on consultants in 2018 for the preparation of a letter responding to the audit service, and close to €18,000 to improve its 20-staff ...

Companies that do not adopt the concept of sustainability will find themselves stranded By Yiannis Misirlis At a time when the planet is sounding the alarm, it becomes more necessary ...

One in five children finish public school with insufficient knowledge of Greek, Education Minister Prodromas Prodromou said on Monday while highlighting the importance of evaluation to track performance in schools. ...

Limassol district court was evacuated early on Monday due to smoke caused by a short circuit in a room used for storage. According to police, the building was evacuated after ...

A 51-year-old man has been hospitalised following an injury after his motorised parachute crashed in Cape Greco, police said on Monday. The joint rescue coordination centre of the defence ministry ...

In today’s episode, state hospitals are facing serious issues, as patients say they are suffering the consequences of tensions between health professionals and the organisation in charge of running ...

A 45-year-old man was arrested late on Sunday after causing public nuisance at a Nicosia apartment building. The suspect was arrested after police received information about a man holding a ...

Two men, aged 37 and 38, were arrested late on Sunday on suspicion of illegal possession of property and drugs. Following a tip-off, officers stopped the car of the two men for ...

Police on Monday said they issued 44 fines following 3,014 nationwide checks for breaches in coronavirus measures. The checks were conducted between 6am on Sunday and 6am on Monday. Five businesses and ...

For a short time last year, face masks were viewed as a fashion accessory. That’s all changed What comes to mind nowadays when we hear the word masks? Just ...

One person died and 94 new Covid cases were reported on Sunday, the ministry of health said. The death means 558 people have died since the start of the pandemic, 354 of whom ...

The school year is progressing smoothly but all coronavirus measures must be adhered to to keep the schools open, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Sunday. “And that is very ...

The ministry of health announced that 22 testing sites will be available for eligible groups of the population to get a rapid test on Monday. They need to have ID with ...

Two drivers were found to be under the influence of drugs during checks carried out in Paphos on Saturday night, the police said on Sunday. The 35-year-old woman and 40-year-old ...

The leader of the Turkish Cypriot NGO Basin-Sen Ali Kishmir said on Sunday he had been prevented from entering Turkey. According to the Turkish Cypriot press, Kishmir said when he ...

A second nurses union on Sunday issued a warning over staffing conditions at the intensive care unit in Makarios hospital, saying it could have an impact on the care received ...

The institutional framework for handling of sexual offences withing schools is being examined, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromos said on Sunday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, the minister said the ...

A total of 949 people received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine at a special walk-in centre set up at the Lanition stadium in Limassol on Sunday, the ministry of health ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday that despite pressure the Turkish demand to recognise the occupied areas so talks on solving the Cyprus problem can resume cannot be met. Speaking ...

‘We are told nothing and several people in the UK have taken their own lives because of what is being done to them’ It has been around seven years since ...

Specialised histological, genetic and other tests are expected to show a cause of death for one month old baby that died this week at the Makarios hospital. A postmortem that ...

Eleven businesses and 29 people were charged for breaking coronavirus measures in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Sunday, police said. The charges resulted from a total of 3,698 checks around ...

Cyprus on Sunday welcomed the agreement reached by the G20 on October 8, marking the long-term efforts to create fair and healthy competition at global level and to safeguard the tax ...